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Newly acquired winger Chad Kolarik made a dramatic Wilkes-Barre/Scranton debut when he scored on his very first shift to give the Penguins an early lead in the first period.

Playing in his 319th game with the Penguins but first in almost nine years, freshly signed Tom Kostopoulos added to his team-record career points total with an assist on a Zach Sill goal in the second.

The Penguins will definitely want to save those two clips for the season highlight film. Then they should probably take the rest of the game tape and burn it.

Brian Flynn, Adam Pardy and Kevin Sundher scored in the final seven minutes of the second period as the Amerks broke open a tie game and cruised to a 4-2 victory Friday night.

The loss snapped a five-game winning streak for the Penguins.

In the first period, Kolarik, acquired from the New York Rangers in a trade for winger Benn Ferriero on Thursday, took a pass from Brian Gibbons on the rush and fired a shot on goal from the right hash marks. Rochester goalie David Leggio made the initial stop, but Kolarik cashed in on his own rebound to make it 1-0 at the 1:36 mark.

In the second period, Kostopoulos and Adam Payerl relentlessly banged away at a loose puck in the crease until it popped out into the slot and Sill buried it to give the Penguins a 2-1 lead halfway through the second period.

It was all Rochester from there.

On a power play less than four minutes after Sill scored, Mark Mancari faked a shot from the right wing then uncorked a backdoor pass that banked in off Flynn's skate to tie the score 2-2.

With 1:39 left in the second period, Phil Varone swooped around the net and found Pardy alone for a blast from the left faceoff dot to give Rochester the lead for good.

Finally, with less than five seconds left before intermission,

Sundher took a pass from Kevin Porter on the rush and beat goalie Brad Thiessen from the left wing as he was being hooked down by a back-checking Paul Thompson to give Rochester a 4-2 lead.

Thiessen, who was 5-1 with a 0.84 goals-against average and three shutouts in his first six starts in January, was pulled in favor of Jeff Zatkoff after stopping 14-of-18 shots in two periods.

Mark Pysyk, a childhood friend of Penguins defenseman Joe Morrow, also scored for Rochester, beating Thiessen from the right wing less than two minutes into the second period to make the score 1-1.

Kostopoulos and defenseman Mark Eaton, 600-game NHL veterans who signed tryout contracts with the Penguins on Wednesday, both played a regular shift.

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